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yes.. will try it again saterday.. with nukes and darks.. darks we have in my SG. But hardly any rads

Hope the nukes and shivans are enough.

Friend had 2 rads and 2 dark corrs in a team and managed in a little over an hour.

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Why would you need Rads if you've got Darks? Howling Twilight & Fluffy and Twilight Grasp will do just as good a job as Lingering Radiation.

I guess it's the new patch.

That'd make sense with Rikti invasion weekend coming as the patch fixes the looping death animations for the drones (which is sort of critical, otherwise Raids are going to be even laggier).

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You're going to the beautiful South of France for two weeks in late July and you want to play CoH?.

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I spent a large chunk of my last hol by the pool in Tuscany getting the bejaysis scared out of me by Silent Hill Origins on the PSP.

Beats reading Celia Ahern books.

I reckon the cost and the reliablity of the signal (which can be bad even in cities) will be the two potential issues. As Sinergy says if you are going the Dongle route check out Passport and make sure it includes data rates (not just calls), otherwise I could see you getting charged through the nose.

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Must admit there have been times that I have really wished for a mix mash toon that could have powers from here there and anywhere.. Emps with SB + ID too.. or Blasters who could pull out a Broadsword, Tanks with sonic dispersion etc...

What if there was a Jack of all trades toon, that started with a set amount of points.

Powers could be given point ratings and each level you spend the points to get the power, every set could be treated as a secondary as its not a true "blaster" or "fender" but you could then have hundreds of new toons and proliferation without any new sets.

Willpower Blaster anyone?

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They tried that in alpha originally

People ended up with Tankmages or total gimps so they went with ATs and sets

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Currently redraw (NO IT DOES AFFECT CASTING TIME! - screw that redname) and animation wise all weapon based sets have a slight dissadvantage.

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After re-rechecking BaBs admitted that redraw does affect some sets after all (after saying it was a myth previously)

No idea which ones though.

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1. make powersets available to more character architypes. Assault rifle defender anyone? , ok, within reason.


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More Proliferation you mean? Absolutely signed. Especially if it means Traps or Cold controllers.

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2. broaden the selection of powers selectable at the lower tiers and give them a bit of variety.


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This is basically what the Kheldians let you do, and it is pretty cool having extra or a choice of powers as you level. It's also sorta what they did with APPs and PPPs. However I doubt it'll ever be done to normal powersets. A new AT might use it though, if any new ATs ever come.

I'd also like to see it completed for the APPs and PPPs (as well as Scrappers and Tanks getting some more APPs) as well as being expanded into the Pool Powers (so each Pool Power gets another choice). For example a hyper-flight power for Fly which briefly lets you fly at Superspeed speeds.

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What Carni said, and what I woulda said if I hadnt got a damned 'Form not Valid' >.< Sigh

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Think the server just had a wobbly, I had it too. But yay, I won!!

*Victory dance*

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That's your own daft fault, the Quartermaster sells ALL SOs from lvl 35 up Ya nonce. This is why I use him rather than the blooming seller who you have to do a mission for.
I mean, honestly, who came up with the bright idea of the shops needing unlocking?

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When I looked at the list it stopped at 40 O.o

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It lists all the 35s & 40s, and then the 45s & 50s. Just to be annoying

So you've to scroll through all the 35s & 40s for all origins and then after them the 45s and 50s start.

Another example of the superb design work from whatever idiot in Paragon Studios does things like Market and Vendor interfaces

(whoever you are you could do with tidying up the left-side categories for DOs and SOs in the merit vendor too).

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That's your own daft fault, the Quartermaster sells ALL SOs from lvl 35 up Ya nonce. This is why I use him rather than the blooming seller who you have to do a mission for.
I mean, honestly, who came up with the bright idea of the shops needing unlocking?

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Poor Ghost Falcon, sitting there mostly unloved and used as a cheap pawnshop for people to clear out their overloaded inventories.

Although the Science Guy in Brickstown is handy, doing his mish gives you Entrusted with the Secret and hence Ouro access (if, like me you kept forgetting to get it beforehand).

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Sorry, I forget, but if it was the usual group I tend to do stuff with chances are it was a TA/Arch defender and a Fire/X dominator. Couldn't swear to it, though.

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I'm wondering if it's a cross faction thing, that if a Hero & a Villain team up the villain pets won't flee from the heroes oil slick and visa versa.

Might hit the RWZ on Defiant later and see if I can coax a Dom or MM to test it out.

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I for one am hoping for some actual C O N T E N T

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And just like all previous added content, being totaly deserted a few weeks after (pre-MA already).

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I dunno about that, any toon I level tends to get into Faultline and RWZ teams

Ouro & Cimorororia are a different matter though.

*Edit : At least Posi acknowledges the awesomeness that is Wipeout!

The last change I saw (which got us all excited) was in i12, but that turned out to be a fix on how quickly a Pet would return to a burnt area, they still fled it.

Last time I checked on my Grav/TA Singy was still legging it, but that was months ago, pre-i15. I'd be surprised if it was fixed without a big fanfare though, simply because it was such a bugger of a bug (Oil Slick makes Castle sob like a little girl).

Were you on the same faction (ie both Heroes or Villains)?

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IF YOU DONT LIKE MA - DON'T USE IT, OTHERWISE STOP SUGGESTING CONTENT THAT OTHERS MAY BE HAPPY WITH GETS CHANGED. - YOU MAKE ME SICK.

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What? I can't hear you, speak up!

Having experienced it last night the Green Bubbles thing is ridiculous altogether. Especially that it's still up there and Paragon Studios haven't fixed it yet.

Boss farms etc I've no problems with at all really, each to their own but the Green Mitos are another matter. The Risk/Reward ratio is basically 0.

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My point remains, don't like it... Don't do it.
Otherwise, it's none of their concern.

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Nonsense.

If you can't see the damage allowing a "Get to 50 for no risk in a few days" which is freely available to all new players does to the long term life of a game there's no point even talking to you.

I'm with JD on this. Leave the mobs in but give them a reward in the MA which reflects the challenge they pose to the average character at that level

This would have an added bonus, you could therotically allow other enemies to appear above their normal level range since you could balance their rewards accordingly.

So if a story-teller wanted level 45 Hellions in the MA you could permit it since their reward would be basically 0.

I'd also strip the rewards of Mitos, give them their attack from level 1 on and give them a horrible long lasting debuff (like the Vashok Wasting Disease), just to give people a shock post-patch

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Hello all.

Yes I'm being highly dramatic and yes, I am aware it ain't ever gonna happen.

I'm just despairing of the game right now and really wish I hadn't paid my subs up until November.

I can honestly say that people 'playing how they want to play, it's their money' is ruining my enjoyment of the game.

I've tried to create teams at varying times and am finding the numbers dwindling each time I do so.

I've put 'no farms/powerlevelling/fills' in my search and still I get invites to MA farms.

I believed there was going to be some kind of crackdown on it but there hasn't been one yet. If there's one thing worse than having to issue a threat, it's not following through on said threat.

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So, my suggestion!

The MA is moved to Talos Island and above. And not right next to the station but somewhere difficult to get to (perhaps not Circe Island...)

Mobs are 'unlocked' by experiencing the levels at which they appear. So rather than being a level 1 and able to create a Carnie mish, that group should become available at level 30.

I know this doesn't work now that there are quite a number of 50s floating around who managed to do it in a stupidly small amount of time but if the action were actually to be taken (i.e. characters deleted, slots banned etc) then it might go some way to turning the game back to what it was in i13.

i.e. fun

Even if GR comes out and is amazing, I won't be surprised to see more 50s powerlevelled through MA and a distinct lack of teaming spirit (except through the powerlevel farms) becoming the norm.

That is all.

Ahem.

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IF YOU DONT LIKE MA - DON'T USE IT, OTHERWISE STOP SUGGESTING CONTENT THAT OTHERS MAY BE HAPPY WITH GETS CHANGED. - YOU MAKE ME SICK.

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What? I can't hear you, speak up!

Having experienced it last night the Green Bubbles thing is ridiculous altogether. Especially that it's still up there and Paragon Studios haven't fixed it yet.

Boss farms etc I've no problems with at all really, each to their own but the Green Mitos are another matter. The Risk/Reward ratio is basically 0.

If you were in the MA then yes, this is a fresh bug. The Oil Slick Target cons as an ally in MA missions for some reason, so that's why you seemed to be targetting through it at an enemy rather than firing at it. Hopefully it'll be fixed soon.

In non-MA missions it's just the usual non-lighting bug which crops up occasionally along with the "Make Allied pets flee" bug. These two non-MA bugs have been around for ages and at this stage are unlikely to be ever fixed.

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The Euro servers are not dying

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The forums bloody well are.

Roll on The Merge

And then hopefully Roll on the EU / US Server Group Merge

I'd say Thugs too. Bots just annoy me, horrid big clanky things, always getting in the way.

Thugs give a nice spread of single-target and cones & AOE all the way through the game (well from level 12 on), the Bruiser would really benefit from Painbringer and Gang War & World of Pain sounds pretty entertaining (assuming the buff is applied to them, haven't tried it myself).

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Not tryin to upset you all here but I found people on the US server to be a lot friendlier and a LOT more helpful to new players (my first account was US)
I'm not saying there aren't some great people over here its just the general mood over there seemed to be much friendlier.

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Yet several people who have tried to re-start on the US (_Damnz* notably) have said they found it a lot less friendly. So who is right?

*Seems to change he name all the time.

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I played over there for a while. Found it Ok. The main problem I had was the fact that the time I played (around 10pm) was mid-afternoon / early evening over there and a lot of the playerbase seemed to be relatively young.

The Freedom Villain PuGs were a sight to behold too, most of the time seemed to be spent outside a mish waiting for the leader to find the full 8 people for the team. There was little chance of starting a mish without 8 people. Standing outside a mission dancing got pretty boring to be honest. Some awesomely bad Car Crash teams as well. Still, I'd happily join the same sort of team on Union rather than all the soloing I've been doing. Think my newest Brute has only managed 1 team in his 2 weeks of playing most evenings, and that was a duo.

Played Virtue Heroes a wee bit too and that was fun. Biggest issue was the lag I got on it. Although Union isn't exactly a slouch in the lag department either.

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Aye, what GG said. People carry on blithely while the Devs have most likely spent all the time between issues, oddly enough, working on the next issue or the one after it. Strangely, I don't think you get to keep a job if you sit around on your hands all day long

Personally, it's something I've long wanted, so I16 will be well recieved by me.

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I'm looking forward to it as something to twiddle with for a few minutes. Nothing more than that really. That's why I really hope we've some other "minor" (in terms of dev time) features added as well. Proliferation for example would be nice and it's fairly "cheap" in terms of manhour investment.

I am not looking forward to some of the eye-bleeding colour combos some people are going to come up with though. Ally Shields will become a lottery

"Oooh, a Thermal. Cool"
"Ack. The Fire Shields are pink and lime green. Aaaah. My eyes. MY EYES!"

Although in fairness if my Fire/Rad Controller hasn't innoculated me from vile colour combos a bit I'll be surprised.

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I dont know the base scaling factors of scrapper and brute, but i asume - with no outside buffing/insp - a brute should outdamage a scrapper due his fury buildup.

But once u are free to use anything at hands, scrapper could reach the upperhead if they have a significat higher base damage.

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The figure I heard bandied around on the US Boards was Fury over 85% I think. But Build Up probably breaks that in the favour of the scrapper as well.

There's a DPS chart of Brute and Scrapper primaries here for those interested. It's assumptions are fairly light too in terms of how things are slotted and what levels of recharge each would have. Basically says Brutes just top Scrappers in a relatively normal build, but only by 3%. Given that Brutes have to work pretty hard to maintain that (especially on some teams) that's pretty good for Scrappers.

There is also another high-recharge comparision thread here but that's a bit less useful to normal day-to-day builds (but probably useful to anyone trying to make an AV beating heavily IOed build).

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Sleep?zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz? Not possible on an Ill troller.

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Illusion/Trick Arrow...
Poison Gas Arrow...
Ranged AoE, Foe -DMG, Sleep
-20% Dmg Buff to Target(s) (To all DMG for 20 Sec)
Mag 2 Sleep, 11.2 Sec PvE / 4 Sec PvP (66% Chance)

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That's specifically /TA, not ill we're talking. Besides the sleep component of posion gas arrow hardly ever works and the power completely breaks stealth.

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Technically Illusion does have a wee chance of Sleep in that odd spill-over sleep the single target hold can do to targets close to the original.

Not that it's of any use in terms of mezzing someone whilest remaining hidden of course.

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be nice if another invasion event of some sort happened from time to time as well , maybe a diffrent faction in the game, is plenty mobs they could have doing spontaionus attacks on zones


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They do. Rikti raids get triggered by a mothership raid, and the Zombie attacks get triggered by... hmm.. Was that ever worked out?

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Thought Rikti invasion was triggered by completion of the LGTF not by MS raid...

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Yep. It's the TF that does it.

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be nice if another invasion event of some sort happened from time to time as well , maybe a diffrent faction in the game, is plenty mobs they could have doing spontaionus attacks on zones


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They do. Rikti raids get triggered by a mothership raid, and the Zombie attacks get triggered by... hmm.. Was that ever worked out?

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Something to do with the Granny in Croatoa & the cossie items. But question marks over how often it can be triggered or if it needs to be night.

Actually the biggest question I'd ask would be "Why are heroes continuely giving an obviously deranged old witch the means to summon a Zombie Hoard in the city and why isn't she in jail by now?"

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Becoming more Influencal or Infamous for playing Dr Aeons fun-time-pretendy-games doesn't make sense to be at all.

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But then nor does trading Inf on an Auction system. Or being able to give it to friends.

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Bah, you and your logical extensions of people's arguments. However I'll attempt to counter with the use of extremely tenuous counter-points & examples:

The trading thing is obviously "Hey, Superdude was hanging around with Beetleman today. That Beetleman sure is cool"

And the AH thing is "Oh hello Superdude, why yes we do have some [uber recipe]s around, was going to give it to Beetleman but you're far more famous so here you go"

*watches his examples stretched waaaay beyond breaking point*

Run for your lives. She's gonna blow!